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Is this the best book on the subject? Both from the standpoint of easy understandability and scholarship? Is there anything better?
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Originally Posted by Rick Larson  Is this the best book on the subject? Both from the standpoint of easy understandability and scholarship? Is there anything better? | It is certainly helpful however there is better work. What specificly do you want?
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It is outstanding, straightforward and readable. However, not having read every book on the subject I would not be able to tell you if it is the best. I often hear it and Pink's "Sovereignty of God" as great starting points.
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Originally Posted by Rick Larson Is this the best book on the subject? Both from the standpoint of easy understandability and scholarship? Is there anything better? | It is certainly helpful however there is better work. What specificly do you want? | The best of both worlds-- something a simple guy can understand but still very thorough, substantial and scholarly. I believe Boettner's book is probably the best, but I'm just wondering if there's something even better I'm not aware of.
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Originally Posted by Rick Larson Is this the best book on the subject? Both from the standpoint of easy understandability and scholarship? Is there anything better? | It is certainly helpful however there is better work. What specificly do you want? | The best of both worlds-- something a simple guy can understand but still very thorough, substantial and scholarly. I believe Boettner's book is probably the best, but I'm just wondering if there's something even better I'm not aware of. | I read this book 3-4 years ago and it totally changed my thinking on what I thought of very negatively up until that point.
Another book I highly recommend is James White's The Potter's Freedom:
These 2 books solidified, for me, difficult concepts in very straight-forward language. I go back to them often just to see the portions I noted, underlined, and commented on.
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Originally Posted by KMK It is outstanding, straightforward and readable. |  I found Sproul's Chosen By God quite helpful as well, but being much more brief and narrow in focus, it simply re-ignited my uncertainty about the subject when I had temporarily been convinced Calvinism was unbiblical. But subsequently reading Boettner's book was what finally convinced me of the opposite, as it considers so many of the relating factors in-depth.
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Boettner is perhaps my all-time favorite, but you might also consider Dr. Sam Storms' recently published book, Chosen for Life: The Case for Divine Election. It's narrower than Boettner, but quite well written and understandable to most everyone.  |
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Originally Posted by Dr Mike Kear Boettner is perhaps my all-time favorite, but you might also consider Dr. Sam Storms' recently published book, Chosen for Life: The Case for Divine Election. It's narrower than Boettner, but quite well written and understandable to most everyone. |
I saw this one the other day but didn't pick it up. I'll have to check it out.
I don't know what ever happened to my copy of Boettner's TRDoP. Did I borrow it to my brother? Did I sell it to one of you guys to help fund my guitar?  | |
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